• Greenhouse Gas legislation that requires cities and businesses to reduce fossil fuel use.
• Renewable Portfolio Standard (RPS) requires utilities to produce 33% of their energy with renewable energy by 2020.
• Distributed Generation-providing energy at the load. Not tied to transmission lines.
• Feed in-tariffs. Pricing renewable energy to include certain externalities and to encourage points 1-3 above. SB 32 coming online in Q4 2010 for <3MW systems.
• Environmental. Air and water quality standards not met with non-renewable electrical generation fuels in new facilities.

RPS and Utilities California Energy Commission Recommendation
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Welcome to Solar Land Partners

There has been a rush over the past 24 months to control land sites for solar energy projects. Most of this speculation has been done by solar energy developers, such as:

• Commercial real estate developers
• Large and small land owners
• Solar speculator groups

Ninety percent of these projects do not get to the finish line.

Solar Land Partners (SLP) is a professional services company made up of energy utility, interconnection, real estate, permitting, solar, finance and legal professionals formed to get land sites "shovel ready" for solar EPC construction. We partner with developer groups to help them get their project to the finish line.

With our team of leading solar industry professionals, Solar Land Partners provides the know-how to create a bankable solar project.

Fred W., a well respected energy attorney says;

We Are Experts In:

• Obtaining interconnection agreements via CAISO SGIP/LGIP or other programs
• Modelling project financials to create a bankable project that can obtain the construction funding it requires.
• Proposing and negotiating PPA agreements with IOUs via RPS RFO process
• Legal work required to dissolve project barriers
• Start-to-finish project management on large solar developments